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Bosch reinforced its leadership in the MEMS industry in 2014 with a 16.6% increase to $1167 million up from $1001 million in 2013. Bosch alone held 12% of the very fragmented MEMS market in 2014 compared to 11% in 2012.
Bosch took the leadership in 2013 thanks to his design in the Apple iPhone 5s and iPad with its accelerometer. Apple boosted Bosch’s MEMS revenue in 2014 again as Bosch is the sole supplier of the pressure sensors added to the iPhone 6 and 6+. Besides Apple, Bosch enjoyed a strong growth of its motion combo sensors with Sony both for gaming with the Sony PS4 and for handsets and tablets. Bosch started going after the consumer MEMS market in 2005 when it created Bosch Sensortec. It added MEMS microphone to its portfolio with the acquisition of Akustica in 2009. Bosch’s bet on consumer applications paid off as this segment now accounted for a third of Bosch’s total MEMS revenue in 2014 compared to less than 18% in 2012.

Interacting with a computer with gesture is fascinating since Steven Spielberg made it so real and intuitive in the movie Minority Report in 2002. In the meantime Microsoft has applied this principle successfully to gaming with the Kinect in 2010. Hand gesture seems to receive also some traction in automotive as Volkswagen is implementing this user interface with an array of infrared photodiodes around the central display and an ASIC from Elmos in millions of cars since 2013.

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This report provides a unique Who-Sells-What-Sensor-to-Which OEM for the years 2010 to 2014, as well as examining emerging applications such as wearables and smart lighting. This report provides an unmatched granularity with market shares and forecasts pivot tables, allowing combined breakout by application, sensor function, integration type (discrete, combo, 2-in-1, 3-in-1…), and analog versus digital.

The market for high value MEMS - i.e. from industrial processes to building, medical and mil-aero - shows a very upbeat 9.4% CAGR (2013-2018). This compares to 5.5% in the 2010 in 2014 period. 2014 is a therefore a watershed that heralds a new area of faster growth for the industrial and medical...

First handsets with fingerprint sensors appeared 10 years ago in Japan. As for accelerometers and gyroscopes in 2007 and 2010 the market picked up when Apple added this sensor in its iPhone and later in the iPad. Samsung...

Worldwide market revenue for MEMS directly used in industrial IoT equipment will rise to $120 million in 2018, up from $16 million in 2013, according to IHS Technology (NYSE: IHS). Additional MEMS also will be used to support the deployment of the IoT, such as devices employed in data centers.

Propelled by the race between Apple and Samsung to enhance their mobile products with cutting-edge sensor technology, the market for sensors in cellphones and tablets is set to nearly triple from 2012 through 2018, according to IHS Technology (NYSE: IHS).

Driven by rising demand for fitness and health monitoring features as well as by improved user interfaces, shipments of sensors used in wearable electronic devices will rise by a factor of seven from 2013 through 2019, according to IHS Technology.

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